Pour Out Your Heart  is not a magic formula that turns one into a prayer dependent person. 

Simeon believed it was essential to review Gospel Truth Daily and that such a review was a great help to our prayers.

This is a great article. Here is an outline, but I encourage you to read it the whole. It motivated and graced me for the task of prayer....

"What if the main object in God’s idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need-the need of Himself?"

The sovereignty of God and my responsibility to be an agent of change in the salvation of those I care for.

“We know we don’t need to clean up our act in order to become a Christian, but when it comes to praying, we forget that. "

"When you . . . allow your anxieties and problems to bring you to God in prayer, you shift from worry to watching."

"Word-saturated prayer is the primary means of abiding in Jesus. . ."

    "It is easy for prayer to meander into vague pieties and to become virtually indistinguishable from thoughts."